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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

White House back to peddling economic stimulus-via-infrastructure spending and new taxes « Hot Air

White House back to peddling economic stimulus-via-infrastructure spending and new taxes « Hot Air: "As President Obama so peevishly informed us all earlier this month, that the debate on repealing/replacing ObamaCare is now absolutely beyond contestation, so it would be really great if we could all just shut up and move on to more important things — like, say, the economy, because “the fifty or so votes Republicans have taken to repeal this law could have been fifty votes to create jobs by investing in things like infrastructure, more innovation.” That’s why the White House is leading by example and contrasting itself with Congress’s deliberately light legislative schedule — by proposing the same old sort of high-spending bull-pucky we’ve heard before."